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Seydou DRAME
LE PARCOURS
Seydou, issu d'une famille de Griots, est né dans la Vallée du Bandama en Côte d'Ivoire, à Bouaké, ville cosmopolite, traversée par l'ensemble des cultures d'Afrique de l'ouest.
Il s'initie dès son plus jeune âge aux percussions et s'exerce quotidiennement sur des boîtes de conserve au retour de l'école. Pendant qu'il joue dans la cour, sa grand-mère, la griotte Aba Konaté, qui l'a élevé, vient souvent montrer des pas de danse traditionnelle à ses soeurs. Baigné de ces influences, mêlant tradition et modernité, Seydou grandit avec la musique.
Quelques années plus tard, il devient vendeur dans un magasin de disque de Bouaké et se fait connaître pour ses animations de soirées et dans les milieux musicaux de la ville.
Il rejoint ensuite ses frères à Ouellé, à l'Est de Bouaké, où il commence à jouer du djembé. Avec eux, il anime beaucoup de fêtes familiales traditionnelles, pour intégrer en 1992 l'ensemble Artistique FOLIBA d'Adama DRAME, avec lequel il va tourner pendant 6 ans en Afrique et en Europe.
Après Bruxelles, Paris, Johannesburg, Bamako et Dakar, Seydou s'est installé à Marseille où il continue son travail autour des influences musicales de France et d'ailleurs.
Seydou was born into a griot family in 1968 at Bouake, a cosmopolitan city crossed by west African cultures, in the Bandama valley in Ivory Coast.
From his earliest age, he had always been interested in percussions. Every time he came back from school, he didn't stop playing on cans.
While he was playing in the court yard, his grandmother (Griot Aba Konate) who raised him, often came to show traditional danse steps to his sisters. Surrounded by these influences, mixing traditions and modernity, Seydou learnt music.
Few years later, he became a salesman in a disc shop in Bouake. He became known for his musical shows in parties and frequented the city's musical haunts.
He then joined his brothers in Ouelle (East Bouake, ghana's border's lines) where he started to play Djembe. With them, he played at many traditional family parties to finally join in 1992 Foliba (Adama Drame artistic group), then he tourned for six years throughout Africa and Europe.
This album is the result of many years work. Its ambition is to make the African music live, mixing traditional and modern musical instruments.
It's a mix between Latin, Caribbean, African and Western music.
After Bruxelles, Paris, Johannesburg, Bamako and Dakar he settled in Marseilles where he continues his work with the musical influences of France and elsewhere. He's also one of the leaders of Sankaba group.
Seydou Dramé
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